Lars
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My Sargent World Sport seat came today, so I thought I would share a couple of photos and a few things I learned:
1) Best not to strip out the "under the foam" head of one of the passenger seat attachment bolts... then also not a good idea to cut a cube out of the seat foam trying to get at the bolt head (I was redoing the cover anyway, so it seemed like a good idea). Anyway, the bolt head is just a flat piece of metal with some plastic tabs holding it, could not even get a pliers or needle nose on it. Ended up using a dremel tool to cut off the nut on the underside, while trying to not let the neighbor kids hear my creative use of language while cutting it off.. Replaced the foam cube, then had to finesse it with some packaging tape to make sure there was no bump or divit visible when recovered.
2) I did learn a neat trick: after dropping about four different nuts and washers into the deep inaccessible nooks and crannies of NC700X rear bodywork, I discovered that popping the plastic plug on the underside of the fender and prying open the body panel a bit will usually liberate the misbehaving nut or washer..
3) If any of you are putting a new cover on the passenger seat, as is the case with a Sargent seat kit, just staple the new cover over the original vinyl cover and forget about the moisture barrier that Sargent sends along. Pull out most of the original staples, leaving about every third one, then stretch and staple the new cover over the original one. Worked great.
Anyway, here's my new seat with matching red piping - I think it looks pretty sharp!
1) Best not to strip out the "under the foam" head of one of the passenger seat attachment bolts... then also not a good idea to cut a cube out of the seat foam trying to get at the bolt head (I was redoing the cover anyway, so it seemed like a good idea). Anyway, the bolt head is just a flat piece of metal with some plastic tabs holding it, could not even get a pliers or needle nose on it. Ended up using a dremel tool to cut off the nut on the underside, while trying to not let the neighbor kids hear my creative use of language while cutting it off.. Replaced the foam cube, then had to finesse it with some packaging tape to make sure there was no bump or divit visible when recovered.
2) I did learn a neat trick: after dropping about four different nuts and washers into the deep inaccessible nooks and crannies of NC700X rear bodywork, I discovered that popping the plastic plug on the underside of the fender and prying open the body panel a bit will usually liberate the misbehaving nut or washer..
3) If any of you are putting a new cover on the passenger seat, as is the case with a Sargent seat kit, just staple the new cover over the original vinyl cover and forget about the moisture barrier that Sargent sends along. Pull out most of the original staples, leaving about every third one, then stretch and staple the new cover over the original one. Worked great.
Anyway, here's my new seat with matching red piping - I think it looks pretty sharp!
